At first sight, Chess and darts seem very different games. This week, several coincidences drew my attention to an unexpected similarity.
At Chess this week, I had watched the remarkable emergence of gifted young chess players taking apart their seniors during a local Chess league match. No real surprise there, as it mainly reinforced the trend of young Chess players out-performing the older generation, led by our new teenage world champion, Gulesh.
But then, the first coincidence. I noticed a young man being interviewed after a success in a darts tournament. He was fresh faced, blinking earnestly from behind a pair of spectacles. He was a larger version of the juniors who had performed so admirably at the Chess match the night before.
A more disturbing coincidence, he bore a passing resemblance to a younger version of our distinguished captain of our B team...
